Scenes from a Walk
around the house
Cheat Day
Just to keep the streak going -- we finished L's new bed, did some stuff in the yard...
First Bonfire
It's not that we haven't had the weather; we haven't made the time...
New Bed and Mowing
Around the House
Spring Sunday
Today was such lovely weather that we knew we had to head to our favorite park for a walk. The plan was to head out after lunch. It would just be K, E, and I because L was out all day, working and completing various obligations.
It's just the three of us more and more often, which is understandable: the Girl is about to finish her junior year of high school, and she's increasingly independent. She's always been independent, but with a car, a job, and social life, K and I sometimes worry that she might be a little too independent.
Just before lunch, though, plans changed: E's close friend invited him over for the afternoon.
"So I guess it's just the two of us," K said.
We're used to that, in theory, but we've been a four of us for so long that it's a distant memory more than anything else.
A distant memory that's becoming an ever-nearing future.
After the walk, K and I spend some time in the yard. She trimmed the roses and hedges; I mowed the lawn for the first time this year.
All in all, a perfect little Sunday.
Saturday
K talked with Babcia again.
The Boy had another soccer game, which they won 6-2.
And spring is everywhere.
Morning
Still out for the count...
Preparing
We’re supposed to get a hell of a storm through here tomorrow, with wind gusts up to 60 miles per hour and three to five inches of rain. Two separate concerns.
We have a forest in our backyard: wind gusts of 60 miles an hour could take down one of those beasts, and some of them are so big they would do significant damage to the house — like having to move out level of damage.
And we know how easily we can flood with less rain than predicted.
And so we went ahead and got ready for what’s sure to be come tomorrow.
Tomorrow is going to be rough.
Smoking Day
